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Calling all Garage Bands

Posted by: Jeff Woods | Mar 4 2010 10:10AM
Updated: Mar 4 2010 10:30AM

You have a day job, but for fun, evenings or weekends, get together with a few pals and jam??? Or maybe you know somebody that does?

WE WANT YOU, all amateurs, weekend warriors, basement dwellers, to videotape your home-jams, and post 'em on Youtube, and give me the link, so I can post 'em here on the Legends Blog. Just for fun.

Please put out the word to your pals who play.

I'll remind in few days, when I put up the latest jam from my garage, a Beatles cover, and then as they come, I'll post your garage band jams.

For now, proving that you don't have to be a pro to get involved, my drumming on a One Hit Wonder, with a couple dudes I hang with, Scotty Shennan on guitar/vocals and sometimes dreadlocked Carlo Silano on bass, recorded in the same place I do the Legends shows.

Gracias,

Jeff

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Sean G.
RE:Calling all Garage Bands
Mar 5 2010 2:22PM
Re: PHIL X Yes, sorry Jeff. Phil is definitely well on his way - but those other fine players with him are still "making it". The first time I saw Phil play an actual show was at our highschool in 1981. They charged us $1 to get in. He was one long haired wicked guitarist in that day - obviosuly destined for greatness. Best part... he is Canadian, and very down to earth to this day. You are awesome by the way - thanks for sticking with us out here!! High quality shows, excellent knowledge, and a way cool attitude.

Jeff Woods: 1 dollar! too funny. you are kind, very much so, thanks.

Jason
RE:Calling all Garage Bands
Mar 5 2010 3:13AM
I love this stuff ... one thing I hate about jam sessions is when you write the best riff in the world and jam out this epic masterpiece - only to have it disappear again after you run through the full set once and then try to come back to it. Man there were so many times we were going to be famous .... great work on the kit Woodsy

Jeff Woods: I know that feeling, and the one where you land the best riff or chord progression, only to later realize, you weren't the first one to do so! Thanks!

Halston!
RE:Calling all Garage Bands
Mar 4 2010 10:03PM
Here ye go, brother! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mBSM83IHqM Two men, xmas lights and a song. Be well! -Carlos Halston

Jeff Woods: Cheers Carlos!

marion
RE:Calling all Garage Bands
Mar 4 2010 7:35PM
I say that lori's story...above? It just goes to show ya. And I also say harps would be outstanding with that tune...the key of G. You guys rawk!!!

Jeff Woods: Lori is my favourite singer, and nobody gets into the gutter better ;)

Johnny A Mac
RE:Calling all Garage Bands
Mar 4 2010 5:02PM
One of the first jams of the band that became Everybody Left, sometime in the spring of 2006. Cover of The Band Formerly Known as the Racket's "Broken Bones" .

Jeff Woods: to many mf's and f's in the lyrics, my computer program won't let me publish the link!

Emily
RE:Calling all Garage Bands
Mar 4 2010 4:50PM
Jeff, you look like you are having a blast & what a workout! Love that photo of John above you. I've known many drummers, and they all have a different answer as to who the #1 drummer of all time is. Who is your favourite, the greatest drummer?

Jeff Woods: It's keeping me young(er). That and running the dog. My favourite drummer? Dead: Keith Moon Living: Brian Blade Cheers Emily

Sean G.
RE:Calling all Garage Bands
Mar 4 2010 2:57PM
Here is one more going way back to the late eighties. I used to put on a show called LUNARFEST back in Ontario... a varriety of band members would join up to be "A Box of Freaks"... a sort of jam band. Here is a sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq4tPAZTLKI&feature=PlayList&p=76DAF84E3086AB79&index=2 (I'm A Man - Chicago)

Jeff Woods: Not to be confused with a 'Box of Frogs'. Cheers Sean.

Sean G.
RE:Calling all Garage Bands
Mar 4 2010 2:53PM
Two of these guys play Calgary a few times a year for fund raising charities... but they are based out of Ontario. The guitarist is Phil X now living in LA. He fronts The Drills and a band named Powder - but is most famous for studio work with Tommy Lee and an assortment of others. This was the last jam they pulled off together, last summer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLG77Ut2oRU ZZ Top's Cheap Sunglasses. (I have a Calgary clip as well of the boys, without Phil): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0KHXrNUPhk (They were drinking that night though).

Jeff Woods: Cheers Sean. I remember meeting Phil X when he was touring with Triumph, they came and did a gig for an Edmonoton radio station party we hosted. thanks for the link, mind you, I'm kinding hoping for 'amateurs' who didn't quit their day jobs.

Matt Hughes
RE:Calling all Garage Bands
Mar 4 2010 2:27PM
Jeff, I play guitar and sing in that band. Glad you like!

Jeff Woods: Great confidence on stage Matt!

Matt Hughes
RE:Calling all Garage Bands
Mar 4 2010 12:42PM
Here are a few vids from a band I played in a few years back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCsCSwt03n0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=152Npu90fxk&feature=related Matt

Jeff Woods: nice work, love Badfinger. you're drumming yes?

debbie m/over 25yrlistner
RE:Calling all Garage Bands
Mar 4 2010 11:48AM
Hi Jeff, Yes, saw this already and loved it ..you do suit the drums! You guys did a great job In the younger days I spent many many evenings watching an ex jam to the point where I could fall asleep .. cheers

Jeff Woods: It as either really late, or he bored you ;) Just playin'. Thanks Deb. Nice of you to check out.

Lori
RE:Calling all Garage Bands
Mar 4 2010 10:53AM
Look at you banging away on those skins..how fun!! Wish I had a band to be in. Actually wish I played the drums. Here's a funny story about my wanting to play the drums. I grew up next door to a man named Henry Adler (you probably know who he was) who I knew was in the music business in NYC but I wasnt sure what he did. At the time I was playing the clarinet in our high school band and taking piano. I really wanted to play the drums but my mother, like most mothers, couldnt stand the noise. Mr Adler died in Sept 2008 and my mother sent me his obit in the mail. Well, I learned from the obit that Henry Adler was a famous drummer and drum teacher who hung with Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa and was the creator of the Adler method of drum instruction. If I had only know then just what a treasure I had living next door to me, I would have insisted that I was going to learn the drums. Could you imagine being taught by Henry Adler to play the drums? Man, I could have achieved my dream of being a rock star. And a female drummer at that. Thanks for sharing the vid and keep banging away.

Jeff Woods: Great story. Henry Adler is a legend indeed. His lessons went a long way for so many drummers. Thanks Lori, for the encouragment. Having too much fun to stop!

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